23 comments:

Hi!!! Gorgeous Joan! What a beautiful porch, a beautiful photograph and boy does that watermelon look good! LOVE the freshly painted house and shutters - so classic. And love the sage green wicker...love it all. ; ) xoTrina

What a beautiful picture...I love the classic style shutter and the green wicker is gorgeous...I've never seen that color wicker before. Watermelon on the front porch - just what I picture a New England summer to be!

Hello Joan:What a great photo! Nothing says summer like porch, wicker, and watermelon...and a cool home! Thank goodness for A/C these past few days. I hope that you and Dan are enjoying many hours on your porch. Cindy

Thank-you for your kind comment. This is my first visit here and I am all of the sudden craving watermelon and a front porch like yours. Is that your front porch? I am inspired to illustrate it for you and your home...and that Ella is enchanting.pve

Hello Patrica! Welcome! Yes, that is our front porch, and OhMy!!.... the house would be so honored to be an inspiration for one of your wonderful illustrations! I remember the one you did for Trina- I loved it!Your decription of Ella is perfect! She is indeed "enchanting"! I've been calling her that since I read you comment, and she wags her tail every time!joan

Hi Joan, so good to be back visiting now that I have a temporary internet connection! Oh your front porch is perfection... straight out of a magazine. Enjoy your time away from house projects... I soooo know how it feels.... so nice to have a bit of a break!... but then it doesn't take long to start craving it again! A-M xx

Each year I forget there are such things as lightening bugs and then one evening there they are in all their magic. It's one of the drawbacks of living on the eleventh floor and not having a garden. I have yet to find a sweet watermelon so far this summer in Atlanta but the temperature has soared to the 90s and it is humid. Have you had the watermelon, feta, olive and red onion salad?

Barry: I have had that salad, and I loved it, but it has been several years now, so thank you for the reminder! I also have a recipe for a watermellon margarita that is out of this world- I should find it and post it!

Hi Joann, another transport to NH is leaving tomorrow and due to arrive on Saturday morning, July 2. I missed you on my last trip and would love to meet you this time if time permits. Please follow our blog! www.goingthedistancetosavelives.blogspot.com

Joan,I just catching up on your blog. I assume this is a photo of your porch since I see the same pea green wicker chair and I can't help notice your beautiful shutters. We they on your house or did you have to buy them. I'm looking for a source for "real" shutters like this. Steve

Welcome! Thank you for leaving a comment; you have no idea how much your comments inspire me to keep writing- I appreciate each and every one. Comments are moderated by me prior to publishing on the blog, so if you don't see your comment post immediately it will be posted as soon as I receive it and read it. joan

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Twelve years ago I could not have even pointed out New Hampshire on a map, but here we are! Nine years ago, after living for 15 years in the beehive that is Dallas, Dan and I finally escaped and landed in a very small town in New Hampshire that doesn't even have a traffic light. Perfection! Our move was a huge risk, but it has paid off with dividends and we absolutely love it here. I think we are really Yankees at heart. If you've never been to New England I cannot describe it with adequate words, you really just have to experience it. It is like no other part of the country. Its beauty matches our beloved Colorado, Oregon, and Washington and its spirit (Live Free or Die) is reminiscent of Texas, and the people... well, we have found them to be most genuine. In essence... we feel as if we have arrived home!

the living room

the kitchen

the dining room

the reading room

the master bedroom

the master bath

the North guest room

the South guest room

the guest bath

the barn room

the summer barn room

the barn half bath

the barn mud room

With the eyes to see it and the hands to create it, we can recover the home that the soul desires.
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